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I see the companion bots have been hard at work updating our skyline of late. A neat trick, reproducing such elaborate structures — for those of you familiar with what's gone up, have you found them to be faithful recreations? Or has a little Etrayan creativity found its way in?
Aurora went out of her way to make one thing clear in her initial communication to us: that we were selected for this exercise for a reason. That begs two immediate questions: why were our worlds the ones selected for representation, and why were we the ones selected to represent them?
Our hosts are unlikely to give us those answers, as we know the selection criteria is being withheld from us. So perhaps the only way we'll make any headway is by taking matters into our own hands.
Consider, then, an exercise of our own: to share something about your world and its circumstances. At best, we might find a common denominator that speaks to our hosts' interest in us. At worst, we'll all come away with a better idea of what's at stake for each of us.
I'm not proposing a forum to advocate for these worlds' continued existence; Aurora and her contemporaries have that much well in hand already. What I am suggesting is that we all better understand our purpose here, and its implications: that should we succeed, these are the worlds that will survive, even at the expense of others that weren't so lucky as to have people like us brought here to fight for them.
Aurora went out of her way to make one thing clear in her initial communication to us: that we were selected for this exercise for a reason. That begs two immediate questions: why were our worlds the ones selected for representation, and why were we the ones selected to represent them?
Our hosts are unlikely to give us those answers, as we know the selection criteria is being withheld from us. So perhaps the only way we'll make any headway is by taking matters into our own hands.
Consider, then, an exercise of our own: to share something about your world and its circumstances. At best, we might find a common denominator that speaks to our hosts' interest in us. At worst, we'll all come away with a better idea of what's at stake for each of us.
I'm not proposing a forum to advocate for these worlds' continued existence; Aurora and her contemporaries have that much well in hand already. What I am suggesting is that we all better understand our purpose here, and its implications: that should we succeed, these are the worlds that will survive, even at the expense of others that weren't so lucky as to have people like us brought here to fight for them.
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And, I don't really know. I know it's Latin in origin, and has something to do with old religions. It's how our ancestors dated things, and I guess we continued it out of posterity.
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What were the old religions centered around?
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I'm sure someone actually from Earth could tell you.
The only religions I know centered around The Last Tree, the spirit of an ancient commander, and the end of the world. What was it like where you come from?
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The end of the world is an interesting one. Is that what led your ancestors to abandon the planet and take to space?
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They didn't willfully abandon their home, though. They just already happened to be up on the original space stations when the bombs dropped.
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Did the threat come from space? Or just from rival countries on the planet's surface itself?
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Rogue artificial intelligence. A man-made solution for man-made problems with consequences for all mankind.
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Let me guess. It decided it knew better than its creators, and acted accordingly.
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Something like that.
You don't sound all that shocked. Was there similar technology in your world?
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Giving an artificial intelligence the ability to make decisions runs the risk that it might make ones that aren't in your own interest.
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( #1 aurora hater here, like girl could you have not at least warned us the doppelgangers were going to be A Problem? )
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Anyways. I've told you a little bit about where I'm from. What about you?
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You know, in my world's mythology "Gaia" is just another name for Earth.
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How does the mythology differ from the reality?
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Which means you might not necessarily be in the minority after all.